Improvement in hillside-plows



A. ELDRED.

Side-Hill Plow.

Patented July 24, 1849.

N.PETERS, PHoTo-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D G.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN ELDRED, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HlLLSlDE-PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 6,606, dated July 24,1849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN ELDRED, of Little Falls, in the county ofHerkimer and State of New York, have invented certain usefulImprovements in the Construction of Hillside-Flows; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe principle or character which (listingu'ishes them from all otherthings before known, and of the usual manner of making, modifying, andusing the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figurel is a side elevation; Fig. 2, side elevation of thelandside; Fig. 3, an elevation seen from the rear.

The objectof my invention is so to construct a side-hill plow as tosecure the advantage of an entire stationary landside combined with twoseparate mold-boards, so constructed and attached as to be made toapproach and recede from the lan'dside by causing them to revolve on ashaft, to which they are both united by an arm that connects the twomold-boards, and on which they are balanced, so as to be readily shiftedby the plowman, by means of a crank or other analogous device placedjust under the handles.

The construction of this plow is as follows: The beam and handles aremade similar to many hillside-plows now in use, and lettered a b on thedrawings. At the rear end of the beam there is a standard, 0, thatextends down nearly or quite to the sole of the plow; and just in therear of the cutter there is an ordinary sheth, d. To this sheth andstandard the landside is aftixethformed of two parts uniting in front,and spreading sufficiently in the rear to admit said sheth and standardbetween them. Said landside presents a smooth surface on each side,diverging from the front edge backward, as before stated. Above saidlandside, directly under the beam, there is a horizontal bar or shaft,0, extending from the sheth, in which it has its front bearing, backthrough the'standard, beyond which it projects a sufficient distance toattach a crank, hereinafter described, near the front end of the shaft6, just in the rear of the sheth. A bar,f, is affixed parallel with saidsheth, and projecting sufficiently from the shaft on each side to attacha moldboard at either end thereof. These mold-boards may be formed likeany ordinary plow, according to the soil in which it is to be worked.They are so situated relatively to each other as that when one is downagainst the landside on one side, that on the opposite side is elevatedabove the beam in a reversed position, leaving the landside opposite thelower mold-hoard free and unobstructed. Under the handles I place asegment-plate, of metal, g, in a vertical position and concentric withthe shaft 0, which plate is embraced by the outer end ofthe crank h onshaft 0, above mentioned. To this crank I attach a spring-handle, t', soformed as to spring into notches a, Fig. 3, made in the segment-plate gfor that purpose near each end. By means of this crank the plowman isenabled to revolve the shaft 6, so as to bring either mold-board down tothelandside in the position shown in the drawings, Fig. 1,where it isfastened by means of the spring-handle z entering the catch in thesegment, and, in addition thereto, a dowel-pin, 0, affixed to the insideof the mold-board, which enters a hole, p, in the landside, made forthat purpose, further secures the mold-board in its proper position.Near the heel of the mold-board I affix a horizontal brace, 70, (seeFig. 2,) that bears against the landside and supports the mold-board atthat point. In front of the sheth a cutter, m, of any ordinary form andconstruction, may be placed. A plow thus constructed can be readilychanged to turn a furrow on either side without the plowmans moving fromhis position; and, by having the beam, handles, and landside immediatelyconnected, and the mold-boards balanced on the same shaft, the changecan be made with expedition and with very little exertion, withoutmoving the beam or handles; and when the parts are brought into placethey are firmly connected, so as to form a perfect implement, by whicharrangement of parts I overcome the defects incident to common side-hillplows, in none of which is the wholelandsidc stationary.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as newand for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, is-

Constructing a hillside-plow, substantially in the manner described, bymaking the entire landside stationary, and combining therewith twomold-boards revolving on a shaft above said landside, so as to turn afurrow on either side, when brought into position, by means of a crankor other analogous devices near the handles of the plow.

ALLEN ELDRED.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH P. WooDnnRRY, WM. GREENOUGH.

